Yoshi and the Mysterious Book features a surprising ode to Super Mario Galaxy

Now that the dust has settled and the box office tallies are in, it’s a little strange that Nintendo didn’t have a new 3D Mario game ready to release alongside The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The sequel was all but assured to be a hit, so you’d think that Nintendo would have been ready to capitalize on that with a well-timed game. Instead, the closest thing we’re getting to a tie-in is Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, which coincides with both Yoshi and Bowser Jr.’s big-screen debuts. It felt like a strange bit of synergy, but I got it a little more after actually playing Yoshi’s Switch 2 adventure. Strangely enough, there’s a whole ode to Super Mario Galaxy hidden in it.